Why Windows 10 will be just fine for years!
We
love you, Windows 10—don't leave us! Born in 2015, Windows 10 "dies"—reaches
its end of life—by Halloween 2025. But so what? Unlike people, Windows 10
lives after death like a digital zombie! It still works just fine, does
everything anyone could want, and will continue to function perfectly for
well over two years, minimum. Windows 11, meanwhile, is just Windows 10
wearing lipstick from a programmer's perspective. They are practically the
same! But Windows 11 spies on you even more, constantly "upsells" Microsoft
products, so upgrading is actually a bad move. Microsoft has shown it does
not care about its customers. No American public company truly does—they
only care about making their stock price go up to please stockholders. For
Microsoft, that means forcing customers to buy new stuff they don't need
and don't want, making them throw their perfectly good old tech into another
bloated landfill.
Remember when Microsoft originally said Windows
10 would be the final version, updated forever? That promise was broken
to force people to get new computers and boost the stock price, Microsoft
marketing decided: "Let's invent Windows 11 and make it incompatible with
old PCs!" They claimed Win 11 had strict security requirements and couldn't
be installed without a special safety chip. But smart hackers immediately proved
Microsoft was lying by getting Win 11 to run on old machines. This wasn't
about security; it was a false promise to gaslight you. Those security chips
are nice, but they aren't at all required to make a PC safe.
So,
don't worry that Windows 10 has reached its end of life and won't get official
bug or security fixes anymore. It has few bugs and is quite secure. You
can make it even safer—indefinitely—by installing a free virus checker like
AVG. As of October 2025,
millions of people are still using it, comprising 40% of the market! Do
you really think Google, Adobe, or other software companies will just throw
those customers away the way Microsoft did? Of course not!
Until
popular programs like Google Chrome or Adobe Photoshop stop supporting Windows
10, just keep using it. Even in the past, when truly horrible security holes
were found in older Windows versions, Microsoft eventually "bit the bullet"
and gave away free fixes anyway.
Keeping Win
10 updated after "death"
For Windows 10 users in
the US who
must get Extended Security Updates (ESU), here's the
deal, and it's not all it seems.
For consumers,
a few options:
- A user can pay
$30 per machine
for one year of updates. Why?
- You could get free updates by giving MS permission to snoop around
in your stuff by syncing your PC settings to the cloud using a
Microsoft account or by redeeming 1,000 Microsoft Rewards bullshit
points. But for only one year. Don't do it!
For schools and colleges:
-
Updates are priced at $1 for the first year, $2 for the second,
and $4 for each subsequent year. Reasonable! (How did that
happen?)
For businesses:
- Updates are
available until 2028, with the cost doubling annually:
$61 for year one, $122 for year two, and $244 for year three. (Who
makes up these weird prices?)
- A 25% discount is offered to businesses using a cloud-based update
management solution such as
Microsoft Intune.
